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The “Queen” and Her Master
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The “Queen” and Her Master

This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the January 1959 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. Ray Pushie, gimlet-eyed purser of Q.T.E.V. Queen of Bermuda, faces passengers from behind the inadequate shelter of a counter amidships on C deck where he sells postage stamps, cashes travellers' cheques, and absorbs complaints and questions with almost unfailing good humor, even under the most trying circumstances. The questions usually involve the possibility of changing…


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Bermuda During the Second World War

In September 1939, Dr. William (Bill) Cooke was just 11½ years old, living in a BELCO owned house on Cemetery Road. Years later he would write in his memoir that he saw “several policemen ride up to the BELCO Front…


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Bermuda and the American Revolution

This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the November 1931 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally.   The unexplained gunpowder conspiracy in 1775.  It was natural that Bermuda should be…


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Crystal Cave – One of Nature’s Pleasantries

This article was taken from our archives. It originally appeared in the May 1931 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did in print originally.  Early in 1907, a group of small children were playing with a…


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A Sweet Life: American teenager Elizabeth Hughes was dying of diabetes when she visited Bermuda in the 1920s

By the Early 1920s, Bermuda was establishing herself as a favourite and fashionable winter destination for rich Americans from the eastern seaboard. The glory days of Island tourism had arrived. Boatloads of genteel tourists arriving for weeks or months of…

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Pirate Tales

This article comes from our archives. It appeared first in the June 1998 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. We know very little about the working lives of black or white Bermudians in the…